Learning About Memory Allocation

• Basic Posix Allocation API:

void *malloc(	size_t size);
 
void *calloc(	size_t number,
 	size_t size);
 
int posix_memalign(	void **ptr,
 	size_t alignment,
 	size_t size);
 
void *aligned_alloc(	size_t alignment,
 	size_t size);
 
void *realloc(	void *ptr,
 	size_t size);
 
void free(	void *ptr);

• Memory Allocator Introduction (In Chinese)

• Jemalloc Learning (In Chinese)

• Catalog

  • PtMalloc (a.k.a, glibc malloc)
  • TCMalloc (By Google)
  • JeMalloc (By FreeBSD)
  • Hoard (By MIT)
  • To be continued.